A student had sent a number of death threats to billionaire Mukesh Ambani, hoping to extort Rs 400 crore from the businessman.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s safety in cost had filed an FIR with Mumbai Police final week due to repeated death threats to the businessman, attempting to extort crores of cash from the Reliance boss. Now, the police has tracked down the accused and brought him into custody.
The Mumbai Police, simply days after the three death threats have been acquired by Mukesh Ambani, was fast to pounce on the perpetrators, slowly deciphering the psychology behind his emails. From the primary threat, it was clear that the accused was attempting to show his intelligence.
The most important perpetrator of the death threats is a 21-year-old student named Rajveer Khant, who is at present pursuing BTech in Gujarat. The man was arrested from Kalol, and he thought-about himself a tech wiz who had efficiently thrown the police off his scent.
Khant, who wished to showcase his technological abilities to his faculty pals, had used a VPN (Virtual Private Network) to open a Mailfence account, which is at present not accessible in India. The VPN was used to masks his IP handle as a sender.
There are solely 150 such accounts in India that was lively and the police observed that Rajveer’s account was arrange in the identical timeframe that the Reliance boss acquired a death threat. The account was made underneath the identify Shadab Khan.
The VPN and consistently altering IP handle made it troublesome to observe down Khant, however one slip up revealed his true location, which ultimately led to the police to him. Khant is the son of a head constable with Kalol police, and has had no felony document up to now.
The first threat sent by Rajveer Khant had the phrase ‘Catch me if you can’ taunting the businessman and the Mumbai Police. The first death threat was issued to Ambani demanding Rs 20 crore, second was for Rs 200 crore and the third death threat was for Rs 400 crore.
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